The US Department of Defense is now the Department of War.

The president has said he wants to rebrand the Pentagon to convey that the U.S. military is not just about defense but offense too. This reflects Trump's posture is his art of dealing with any entity in the world be it friend or foe. Is this a smart thing to do?

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Reason10 · 70-79, M

Actually, DOD began as the Department Of War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War

The War Department existed for 158 years, from August 7, 1789, to September 18, 1947,[1] when, under the National Security Act of 1947, it split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force (which, together with the Department of the Navy, formed the National Military Establishment). In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Reason10 when you evolve in an appropriate way, you really don't want to go backwards! Our country seems to be headed in many ways, on that direction. The shiny beacon on the hill called the Democratic experiment seems to be dimming.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@samueltyler2 I can tell you get all your news from these cows.

How is renaming a government agency somehow moving backwards? What else do you think is going backwards? The economy is good. We aren't at war anywhere. DC is violent crime free for the first time in decades. Gee! That's going backwards, isn't it?

Oh, and the word Democracy does NOT appear in any of the founding documents. America is not a democracy. It is a constitutional Republic.

The only experiment that has failed miserably is the welfare state, (which takes up 70 percent of the federal budget and is the sole reason why the country is trillions of dollars in debt.)

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Reason10 Please get your history straight, are you seeing prices in your grocery or gas station dropping?

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